Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spores to 31 states. Flourishing in warm, wet weather, the pathogen reduces the size of kernels, weakens the stalks and rots the ears. Because farmers have enough feed grain to last for nearly a year, however, the blight probably will not noticeably affect the price of such foods as meat, milk, cheese and poultry...
...tall, light-skinned Punjabis, Pathans, Baluchis and Sindhis of West Pakistan are descendants of the Aryans who swept into the subcontinent in the second millennium B.C. East Pakistan's slight, dark Bengalis are more closely related to the Dravidian people they subjugated. The Westerners, who eat wheat and meat, speak Urdu, which is written in Arabic but is a synthesis of Persian and Hindi. The Easterners eat rice and fish, and speak Bengali, a singsong language of Indo-Aryan origin...
...would be "the people's department." But has it turned out that way? Ralph Nader thinks not. In a 491-page report by one of his indefatigable groups of "Raiders," Nader charges that the department favors big "agribusiness" and fails to protect otherwise defenseless Americans from bad meat, contaminated poultry and toxic pesticides...
Horror Stories. Nader's group concedes that federal inspectors do a good job in checking 75% of the meat processed in the U S. But state inspection standards, which legally should be certified by the Agriculture Department, are in a jurisdictional limbo. In most states, according to the report, nearly un-monitored inspectors tend to be subject both to intimidation (one poultry inspector was pushed into a plucking machine) and to bribes (money, girls, or all the meat they can eat). As a result, the report charges, they routinely approve "4D" animals-dead, dying, diseased or disabled-for processing...
Even worse are the problems posed by hidden contaminants in meat. Stuffed with chemicals that make them fatten fast, animals end their lives in overpacked feed lots. Four chickens, for example, are jammed into a 12-in. by 18-in. cage. Since overcrowding promotes stress and enhances the spread of disease, the lot operators pour tranquilizers and antibiotics into feed troughs...